[support] HOW: Moving drupal from one host to another

[Brett Evanson]

This sounds like it could be a clean urls issue. Did you get the
.htaccess file copied over? Does your new host support .htaccess files
and mod_rewrite for apache?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Néstor <rotsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried moving Drupal 6.9 from one host to another and it did not work.
> 1) I did a 'mysqldump -u root -p --opt drupal69 > drupal69.sql
> 2) I copied the entire Drupal69 directory under my htdocs to my
>     the new host's htdocs directory
> 3) I created the DB on the new host and then I installed the dump
>     using the following command 'mysql -u root -p drupal69 < drupal69.sql'
>
> 4) I edit the config file and changed the '10.100.5.126' ip address to
> 'localhost'
>     and set the password to the correct password.  (the user is the same)
>
> I am able to see the main page but when I try to log in, I get the error
> page not found
> for htdocs/drupal69/user.
>
> What are the proper steps tp follow?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nestor
>
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